History Main / DogFaces

* DenialOfAnimality: They act completely human, they are almost never acknowledged to be dogs, and they refer to themselves as "people", "person", "man", "men", and any other human-related term. They don't refer to themselves by any dog-related term at all. They don't even act anything like dogs. [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey,]] Minnie, and Mortimer are still referred to as mice, and [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald,]] Daisy, the Nephews, Scrooge, Von Drake, and the rest of the Duck family are still referred to as ducks, however.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Carl Barks loved drawing humans, and wanted to include them in his WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck stories, but the higher ups demanded Dogfaces to be used all the time. He sneaked some humans here and there, before completely sending his bosses' wishes to screw themselves with his classic story ''Dangerous Disguise'', in which Donald and his nephews are the sole ducks in a world otherwise exclusively populated by humans. Barks got the warning of his life for that one, and was forbidden from using humans ever again. His chief editor declared that it simply looked bad, and that it "took the ducks out of their own world".
** Subverted in the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck ''cartoons''. If you pay attention, dogfaces populate Donald's world only in the earliest shorts; unlike many of the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse toons before, Don's universe was much more likely to shelter actual humans; in fact, ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' settled on using them instead of dogfaces because there was already a rich history of duck-human interactions on these WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.

* FurryReminder: One dogface in ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' catches a Frisbee in his mouth as a normal dog would.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys are notable for their name actually calling attention to their species. There's also Scrooge's butler Duckworth, who despite his name is a dog rather than a duck, and minor baddie/ally Dijon/Faris D'jinn.

* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': The character, Dr. Doppler is actually one of these, though he atypically evidences some canine behavior traits, and coexists with actual humans (namely Jim Hawkins and his mother).

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': Oddly, Jake sports a dog-like nose in his dragon form, as do some of the other Western dragons seen in the show.

** But [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Pistol]] has erect ears like a Chihuahua, [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie Roxanne]] has ears that [[FurryEarDissonance look like human ears]], and Goofy Jr., [[WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie Sylvia Marpole]][[note]]her tresses are treated as ears instead[[/note]], and [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Peg]] are drawn ''[[ArtisticLicenseBiology without any pinnae (ear flaps)]]'' whatsoever.